280 Quotes About Minimalism

My creative muse is wabi-sabi, a practice where inessentials are trimmed away or eliminated. The intersection where wabi (minimal) and sabi (functional) meet is the platform for my creativity: space and quiet solitude, simplicity.

Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.

Paradoxically, minimalism is the maximum use of space.

Greed is bad for the person … and the environment, but good for the economy.

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

Nothing humbles a rich man better than not being wanted by a woman whose man is poor.